NEWS

In quarter one of 2020, unemployment levels amongst our young people were particularly high in the regions of Waikato, Northland, and Taranaki. Of the twelve regions measured, these three regions had an average of 17% of their youth aged 15-24, not in employment, educa...

Future Leaders Academy is very excited to be collaborating with Eco Noosa River Adventures, and Tourism Noosa, to offer this upcoming short series of workshops to support the local business community. Interested to know more or keen to sign up? Read on.......

Students worked on scenarios which taught them how to lead in a group discussion setting and present a workable solution to the hosts. NES workshops had the students helping to solve issues such as dealing with waste products from both the local people and tourism sect...

Deciding to take our student leadership course overseas this year to Fiji, was an exciting prospect, yet it had the Future Leaders team stepping into new territory. We took 18 New Zealand year 12 and 13 high school students, who applied and were chosen based on their s...

A group of secondary school student leaders arrived from across the country (including Auckland, Kapiti, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Wellington and Marlborough) to at

The role of student leaders whether a Head Prefect, Prefect, House Captain, Committee Leader, Sports Captain or whatever your school calls them is extremely important. 

If chosen well, these students can positively influence the student body, act as adv...

Our latest LSV Course Graduates join us.

This week we had 17 Wellington region youth start our LSV Graduate Program. They marched out of their LSV Course in Burnham on Saturday, and the feedback from the LSV Courses NZDF staff, was that this group were a pleasure to hav...

Leadership is one of those subjects everyone has an opinion about. Visit any library or bookshop and you’ll find shelves of books written about leadership from military personnel to famous sportspeople, through to business pioneers and politicians. So one has to ask, w...

Feb 26th – Mar 5th 2017.

After all of the build up, things put in place, set backs then full acceleration, it was really happening. We were off! Project Aitutaki, our voluntary mission in the Cook Islands. A whole week of Confidence Building and Leadership Training for...

2017 Executive Student Committee Leader - Arts @ Wellington Girls College

In terms of the course itself, it without a doubt helped improve my leadership skills. Before I attended the course, I didn’t know that much about how to be a leader. The only skill I felt I had w...